OBIT: Lourene (WHITSEL) OTT, 2002, Orbisonia, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mike Gifford Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm __________________________________________ Lourene W. Ott Lourene Whitsel Ott, 76, of Orbisonia, died at 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at J. C. Blair Hospital, Huntingdon. Funeral services were held March 29 at the Martin R. Brown Funeral Home, Orbisonia, with Rev. Rick Eminhizer officiating. Interment was in Orbisonia Cemetery. Born Sept. 19, 1925, in Shirleysburg, she was the daughter of the late David R. and Virginia (Snair) Whitsel. She was married to Janvier F. Ott on Oct. 16, 1949, at Orbisonia. Mr. Ott preceded her in death on June 10, 1996. She is survived by two sons: Wayne P. Ott of Orbisonia and Gregory F. Ott of Fishersville, Va., and seven grandchildren. One brother, Kenneth Dewese Whitsel, preceded her in death on Sept. 7, 1979. She was a 1943 graduate of Orbisonia High School and a 1944 graduate of Huntingdon Secretarial School. Mrs. Ott was a member of the Orbisonia United Methodist Church. She worked for 20 years in banking with Penn Central National Bank in Mount Union and Unitas Bank in Three Springs, 16 years as a secretary at Southern Huntingdon County High School and served as a Cromwell Township tax collector for 27 years. Along with her husband, she owned and operated the Ott Mobile Home Park in Cromwell Township since 1969. The Valley Log, Orbisonia, Pa., April 3, 2002